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...there is any truth in the old proverb about the success of the early bird in the quest of the wily norm, Tammany should have its way in the National Democratic Convention of 1928: for already, long before the dawn of the next presidential campaign, that organization's representatives are beginning to flit about and chirp noisily. The first flight, of course, has been southward. where the game is biggest, although most elusive...
Mayor-elect James A. Walker of New York, who may certainly be classified as a Tammany bird, is among the earliest and perhaps most tactful. Last Tuesday in Atlanta, Georgia, he made a speech. Which is reported to have had a political flavor, as one might well have suspected. It is said that he eulogized his own little nest in New York and lamented that the other Democrats of the country had been so reluctant to accept an invitation to share it with him and his fellows. Reference was made, in the course of his speech, to a certain member...
Other familiar fables are recognized: the rabbit who slew a lion by showing him his rival in a well (on the principle of Aesop's dog-and-bone tale) ; the gluttonous heron that was strangled by a crab; the mice that gnawed elephants free; the bird with the golden dung (goose of golden eggs) ; the ass in the tiger skin. Translator Ryder's performance is best judged by inspection of the neat economy of some of the interlarded jingles...
...Charles Sumner Scholarship, formerly the Charles Sumner Bird Scholarship, has been awarded to L. R. Henrich '29, of Auburndale. This award, offered by C. S. Bird '77, goes annually to a graduate of a high school within twenty miles of Boston...
...lady dainty as a bird for all her bulk, she sometimes wrote in a Japanese measure, light as a moth's wing, of love's pain. She contrived a grotesque, flitting tragedy from the conceited dreams of a scrimp-shanked philosopher, starving himself dead in the dusty ratruns of a cathedral spire...